Contributors
- Contributors
J. Peter Brosius is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia. His research interests include the cultural politics of conservation, transnational environmental movements and institutions, hunter-gather societies, and tropical adaptations, with geographic expertise in insular Southeast Asia. He has published extensively in books and journals, including in Current Anthropology, Conservation Biology, and Human Ecology. His co-edited book, Representing Communities: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, is widely cited across disciplines.
Bram Büscher is associate professor of environment and sustainable development at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and holds visiting positions at the University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He has published widely on environmental politics, biodiversity conservation, energy and political economy and is currently investigating the effects of the rise of new media on conservation. He is the author of Transforming the Frontier. Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa (Duke University Press, 2013).
Lisa M. Campbell is the Rachel Carson Associate Professor in Marine Affairs and Policy, in the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University. For a variety of marine topics, she studies the interactions of policy-making and practice across local, regional, national, and international governance levels, and she is particularly interested in how science informs such interactions. She has published widely in geography and interdisciplinary journals, including Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Geoforum, Conservation Biology, Ecology and Society, and Conservation and Society.
Catherine Corson is the Miller Worley Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College. As a political ecologist, she has conducted field research in Zimbabwe, Australia, and Madagascar, and her current research explores the rise of market-based environmentalism and associated shifts in environmental governance. She has published on topics such as struggles over resources in Madagascar, the politics of US environmental foreign aid, and collaborative event ethnography in journals such as Antipode, Development and Change, Human Geography, Journal of Peasant Studies, Society and Natural Resources, Global Environmental Change, and Conservation and Society. Prior to receiving her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, she spent a decade working as an environment and development policy analyst. [End Page iv]
Juan Luis Dammert B. is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. He holds a BA in sociology from Catholic University of Peru, where he was also an adjunct professor from 2006 to 2011. He has worked for four years at the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, where he was appointed Director of the Program on Citizenship and Socio-environmental Affairs in 2011. His work focuses on environmental governance of large scale monocultures and extractive industries.
Rosaleen Duffy is professor of political ecology in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on international politics, geography, and development studies. She focuses on global environmental governance, neoliberalism and nature, the wildlife trade, gemstone mining, tourism, and transfrontier peace parks. Her most recent books are Nature Crime: How We’re Getting Conservation Wrong (Yale University Press, 2010) and Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas (Earthscan, 2008), with Dan Brockington and James Igoe.
Noella J. Gray is assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph, Canada, where she contributes to the environmental governance program. Her research examines the politics of marine conservation and governance across scales, focusing on international institutions as well as marine protected areas and volunteer tourism in Belize. Her work has been published in Conservation Biology, Conservation and Society, Conservation Letters, Ecology and Society, and Marine Policy.
Rebecca L. Gruby is assistant professor in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on multi-level conservation governance in marine contexts, from human geography and new institutionalist perspectives. She has published in Global Environmental Change, Environment and Planning A, Conservation Letters, Marine Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, Conservation and Society, and Yearbook of International Environmental Law.
Shannon M. Hagerman is a senior research fellow with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington. Her research focuses...
